Garment bagger



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ATTORNEY.

Patented May 21, 1940 UNITED STATES PATENT OFFKCE GARMENT BAGGER Robert E. Williams, The Dalles, Oreg.

Application May 23, 1939, Serial No. 275,325

1 Claim. (Cl. 226-18) This invention relates to clothes baggers and through the tube and under the pulley l2, which the primary object of the invention is to provide is journaled to the shaft !3 secured to the upper a device for placing bags over garments in cleanportion of the weight M at IS. The cord I! is ing establishments and stores, for protecting then brought up the tube and looped over the pin 5 them from dust, dirt and so forth. it secured within the fitting or coupling 4. The

In the use of my new and improved clothes end ll of the cord could be directly connected to bagger the operation of placing a bag over clothes the upper end of the weight I4, but the assembly becomes a simple matter, therefore the use of shown multiplies the travel of clip l8, thereby transparent bags for covering'clothes in stores keeping the overall length of the tube 5 to a Where they are merchandised will become a genminimum. There are a number of clips [8 se- 10 eral practice, due to the ease of removing the cured to the cord H and are provided to accombag and bagging the garments. modate diiierent lengths of bags as indicated by A still further object of my invention is to pronumeral l9. vide a clothes bagger mechanism that is easy In the operation of my new and improved toinstall to the ceiling of a room and that gives clothes bagger, the end HA of the cord H is 15 ample clearance underneath and free movement grasped by the operator and pulled downward, the within the room. clip I8 is clipped to the upper portion of the bag A still further object of my invention is to perand the end or hook I is trained into the hole mit the free use of the operators hands while of the bag. On the releasing of the end HA of 0 bagging the clothes. the cord II the bag will be raised by the weight 20 These and other incidental objects will be ap- M to the position shown in Figure 2, and held in parent in the drawing and specification. this position while the operator arranges the Referring to the drawing: clothes upon the hook I, the lower end 2| of the Figure 1 is a side view of my new and improved bag is is then grasped and pulled down over the clothes bagger, having a clothes bag clipped garments, the clips [8 releasing the same as this 5 thereto. operation is performed. This completes a cycle Figure 2 is a side view of Figure 1 wherein the of operation of my clothes bagger. It will be clothes bag is in raised position ready to be noted that there are no special tubes that are brought down over the garment. slotted to accomplish the operation of my bagger Figure 3 is a fragmentary side section View of and that it is simple of construction, making it 30 my new and improved clothes bagger. practical from a production standpoint.

Figure 4 is a detail front view of the pulley I do not wish to be limited to the particular system. mechanism employed, as other forms of construc- Figure 5 is a sectional View of Figure 4, looking tion may be used, still coming within the scope of in the direction indicated. the claim to follow. 35

Figure 6 is a plan view of Figure 4. What I-claim is: In the drawing: A clothes bagger, including a hollow standard,

My new and improved clothes bagger consists comprising an upper section and a lower section, of a tubular main body member secured to the means at the bottom of the lower section to sup- 40 ceiling 2 by suitable fastening means 3, which port a garment, a coupling uniting the sections 40 may be secured to the ceiling by screws or bolts. formed with a slot, a roller in the coupling, a pin A special fitting or coupling 4 is provided for in the coupling, a cord connected at one end to joining the lower tube 5 with the upper tube 6. the pin and extended over the roller and through The reason for providing a coupling 4 is to prothe slot to the exterior of the coupling, a weight vide a standard length mechanism or tube 5 for movable in the standard and supported on the 45 encasing the working parts of the bagging ma- 1 cord intermediate the pin and roller, and a chine. This construction provides for a standard clothes supporting hook at the lower end of the clearance from the bottom portion or hook 1 standard, a clip on the cord to attach a bag, above the floor line, due to the fact that the tube the upper section of the standard providing mere- 6 can be made of such a length as to provide for 1y a support from an overhead fixture and being v the proper clearance. This is one of the imporreplaceable bysections of difierent lengths to tant details of my new and improved clothes dispose the lower end of the standard at a proper bagger. height from the floor without disturbing the rela- The fitting or coupling 4 is slotted at 8 and tion or arrangement of any of the operating has a pulley 9 mounted thereon to shaft Ill. A parts. 5

cord H is trained about the pulley 9 and down ROBERT E. WILLIAMS. 

